Entertainment Exec Cynthia Ladd Steps Forward As Cosby Victim How many accusers does this make? We’ve pretty much lost count at this point. Via LA Times : A philanthropist and former entertainment exec has become the latest in a string of alleged victims to accuse entertainer Bill Cosby of sexual assault. The accusation by Cindra Ladd, the wife of former 20th Century Fox President Alan Ladd Jr., came on the same day that the entertainer pulled out of another scheduled concert performance, this time in Bakersfield. Cosby has canceled several scheduled dates since the scandal broke late last year, and his Feb. 12 concert at the Fox Theatre would have been the closest appearance to Los Angeles since the controversy erupted. In an essay posted to the Huffington Post on Monday, Ladd wrote that she first met Cosby in 1969 in New York when she was a 21-year-old single woman working for the late film producer Ray Stark. She said Cosby at that time was a 32-year-old “nationally known performer, and “one of the most likeable and popular entertainers in the business.” Ladd wrote that Cosby asked for her number, and she gave it to him. The two began hanging out, going to movies and eating snacks in her apartment with her roommate in their apartment. “He was married to his current wife and he acted like a perfect gentleman who didn’t come on to either of us, which, I have to admit, made me wonder what his objective was,” she wrote. She said she met him one night before a movie outing at an apartment that he said belonged to a friend of his. After she complained of a terrible headache, Cosby told her he had a “miracle cure” given to him by a doctor. He gave her a capsule, saying she could trust him. Ladd wrote that she doesn’t recall exactly what happened because it remains “a blur.” But she said she awoke the following morning nude in bed at the friend’s apartment, and Cosby was wearing a white terry cloth bathrobe: “It was obvious that he had had sex with me.” She said she never went to the police because it was a “different time and ‘date rape’ was a concept that did not exist.” They just keep piling up …
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And YET Another One: Oscar-Winning Former Entertainment Exec Becomes Latest Cosby Accuser
